Strong's Hebrew · H2154

זִמָּה

zimmâh · zim-maw'

heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).

Definition

a plan, especially a bad one

Derivation

or זַמָּה; from H2161 (זָמַם);

Appears 29 times in Scripture

Judges 20:6

Then I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.

Leviticus 19:29

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Job 31:11

For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

Job 17:11

My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.

Proverbs 10:23

The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.

Leviticus 18:17

You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

Jeremiah 13:27

Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

Psalms 26:10

in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

Leviticus 20:14

If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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